' he centenary of Stkphane Mallarmk's death (1898-1998) not only provides the occasion for this article and for many other publications and colloquia, but is also an appropriate moment to reflect on the afterlife of a poet who was haunted by a spectral conception of the future and for whom the pristine survival of his work was an obsessive concern. In this, Mallarmi was like other writers in kind but not in degree. He pushed a preoccupation with the future to become one the major themes of his poetry: the future seen as a distinctly literary event, at once in the poem and yet beyond it, as though the completion of the poem, the "death of the poet, in effect marked the future. Maurice Blanchot grasped the complexity of this thematic configuration earlier than many of Mallarmk's commentators, as he teased out the Hegelian and Heideggerian threads that seem to run through Mallarmk, glimpsing a Dasein of

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